This Week in AI Security: Frontier Models Clear the Gate, Report Cards Come Due

GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 both went fully public this week on very different safety terms, an independent panel handed the industry’s frontier labs a round of C’s and F’s, and Illinois became the first state to pair AI safety disclosure with real audits.

July 11, 2026 · 7 min · Raphael Najee Monteiro